{"id":4506,"date":"2016-03-24T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:51:10","slug":"365120-travel-desk-cleaning-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365120-travel-desk-cleaning-4\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#121: Travel &#038; Desk Cleaning 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekend, another excuse. This past weekend out of town travel kept me from continuing to clean out my desk. After returning home and doing the obligatory catch up from the meeting and addressing the coming week\u2019s priorities, I decided to attack the low hanging fruit \u2013 stuff on top of my roll-top desk. This included:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Days-365120-Lent-medical-files.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4508\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Days-365120-Lent-medical-files-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+120 Lent medical files\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books:<\/strong> I decided that only reference books deserved to be within arm\u2019s reach. Therefore, my \u201cread sometime\u201d books got demoted to other book shelves. This means they may never get read but at least they aren\u2019t taking up valuable real estate on my desk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Medical Reports:<\/strong> We changed from Humana Medicare to Aetna Medicare on January 1. I had always been annoyed by the unnecessary paper that Humana mailed to me each month but didn\u2019t want to take the time to prune through it or call and complain. This made it easy, just pitch 4 inches of paper reports. So far Aetna has not been inundating me with superfluous\u00a0paper.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Days-365120-Lent-Notes-to-self-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4509\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Days-365120-Lent-Notes-to-self-cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+120 Lent Notes to self cropped\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>107 Miscellaneous notes to self:<\/strong> I have a small tin that I\u2019ve been keeping important and\/or interesting scraps of paper in for the past 5 years. They were neat, but 107 are too many to sort through even if I could remember what I wrote. I discarded 72. Of the remaining ones, I grouped 17 into Marriage, Parenting, or Meeting ideas. I saved the essence of some of the discarded ones to computer files. Ah, this feels more manageable.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Days-365120-Lent-Misc-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Days-365120-Lent-Misc-cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+120 Lent Misc cropped\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>Box, Book End, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TMC):<\/strong> I\u2019m moving the box and book end to other parts of the house. I pitched the little TMC acupuncture \u201cthingies.\u201d They were 10 years old and for back pain. I\u2019ve been pain free for awhile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3 LESSONS LEARNED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Know thyself.<\/strong>\u00a0Admit\u00a0that I\u2019m more of an article reader than a book reader and pass the books on.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Let go of unrealistic expectations.<\/strong>\u00a0Although, I had hoped to not only clean out my desk this Lent but also go through my file cabinets. I\u2019ve barely finished my desk and there are just 3 days to go. It\u2019s OK. Although moving can force pruning, for those of us who have lived in one place for a long time, getting rid of the accumulation can also take a long time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Getting rid of stuff takes time but the process can be sweet.<\/strong> It took me about an hour to go through the 107 notes. Lest you think this was time wasted, I am pleased to report that most of the time was spent on hold with several medical providers who were trying to help me resolve an overcharge on a bill. Bottom line: <em><strong>Always have something to do while on hold.<\/strong><\/em> Checking Facebook is another use for \u201chold\u201d time. On the other hand, spending some time with old inspirational notes was, well, inspirational.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekend, another excuse. This past weekend out of town travel kept me from continuing to clean out my desk. After returning home and doing the obligatory catch up from the meeting and addressing the coming week\u2019s priorities, I decided to attack the low hanging fruit \u2013 stuff on top of my roll-top desk. 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